http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/daniel-soloves-the-future-of-reputation/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/daniel-soloves-the-future-of-reputation/comment-page-1/#comment-25226 The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Law Professor Daniel Solove Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:39:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5615#comment-25226 [...] Ted Frank writes: "Daniel Solove’s solution to the potential problem of damning information on the Internet is to open up the libel laws and to remove the Communications Decency Act safe-harbor for site owners. As Amber Taylor points out in a provocative review, one could take this chain more seriously if Solove more directly considered the real-world consequences of such a rule, and the amount of true speech it would shut down because of the potential legal expense of defending speech in the absence of bright-line rules." [...] [...] Ted Frank writes: "Daniel Solove’s solution to the potential problem of damning information on the Internet is to open up the libel laws and to remove the Communications Decency Act safe-harbor for site owners. As Amber Taylor points out in a provocative review, one could take this chain more seriously if Solove more directly considered the real-world consequences of such a rule, and the amount of true speech it would shut down because of the potential legal expense of defending speech in the absence of bright-line rules." [...]

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